“The public seldom forgive twice.”
“Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?”
“Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.”
“The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.”
“If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.”
“Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.”
“Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”
“Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.”
“He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.”
“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
“You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.”
“Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.”
“The prudent sees only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both, diminishes those, makes these preponderate, and conquers.”
“Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.”
“Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.”
“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
“Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.”
“Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.”
“Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.”
“Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.”
“Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?”
“You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.”
“Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.”
“Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.”
“I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.”
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”